Since, as the Times points out, dogs have been popping up in art for hundreds of years, we thought it was safe to assume that there are at least a few artists who are fans of the friendly beasts… More photos and the NY Times article at Flavor Wire
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Amsterdam’s famous canals are frozen – time to lace up those ice skates!
For the second time in three years, Amsterdam’s famous canals have frozen. You know what that means? It’s time to lace up the ice skates. After temperatures dropped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) this past weekend, Dutch young and old flocked to the city’s famous waterways, gliding across the frozen surfaces on …
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Amsterdam's famous canals are frozen – time to lace up those ice skates!
For the second time in three years, Amsterdam’s famous canals have frozen. You know what that means? It’s time to lace up the ice skates. After temperatures dropped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) this past weekend, Dutch young and old flocked to the city’s famous waterways, gliding across the frozen surfaces on …
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Favorite Commercials: Robert Frost, poem, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen …
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The oldest age people can reach is 114…so far
A puzzling part to the equation has emerged. While humans are in fact living longer lives on average, the oldest age that the oldest people reach seems to be stubbornly and oddly precisely cemented right at 114. A person born in the US at the turn of the 20th century could expect to live 49.2 …
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How to say I love you in 100 different languages – Happy Valentines Day!
Favorite Commercials: Yoda beats up on Darth Maul, big-head style
Celebrate Black History Month – buy the book “How To Be Black”
“Part autobiography, part stand-up routine, part contemporary political analysis, and astute all over.” Raised by a pro-black, pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has over thirty years’ experience in being black. Now, through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian …
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Celebrate Black History Month – buy the book "How To Be Black"
“Part autobiography, part stand-up routine, part contemporary political analysis, and astute all over.” Raised by a pro-black, pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has over thirty years’ experience in being black. Now, through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian …
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“We tried to make a difference from within the belly of the beast” – Rebels at Work
Carmen Medina, Former Director, CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence, explains how a combination of optimism, outrageousness and sense-making can help leaders positively impact an organization. Learn more at Rebels at Work.